Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

Your opinions are your symptoms.